Strategy to get past 40 in Verbal

[arnav.m9]

I scored 39/38 on Prep1/2 respectively and scored 36 on the actual test. Here is my count of mistakes

Prep 1: SC -5 CR-4 RC -1 (total 10)

Prep 2: SC -5 CR-4 RC -2 (total 11)

As you may see, I can cover quite some ground in both SC and CR. I thought that I would get atleast 38 on the test. I fell short by 2. I might have missed by a question or two. But I would like to find out what kind of SC/CR questions actually bother me.

I blew away the prep software and reinstalled to take it more than once. How ever, I can comb through them and find out which I got wrong. Do you think that such diagnosis will help identify my weaknesses in SC and CR?

[shyamprasadrao]

Are you planning for a retake, if yes try using the GMAT GRID ,it might help you to zero in on what your problem is, such as modified or assumption etc...

[JonathanSchneider]

Keep in mind that it is not the number of questions that you get right/wrong that affects your final score. Instead, it is the difficulty of those questions. Yes, you want to get a sense of your main areas of weakness on SC/CR. However, you also want to be particularly concerned about any low-level questions you might have missed, regardless of topic.

Have you taken one of our practice CATs? It will give you a sense of the difficulty level of the questions you've missed.